josefk Posted November 3, 2022 Share Posted November 3, 2022 ...erm. Doubles i think tonight 😉 8 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Scarlet Posted November 3, 2022 Share Posted November 3, 2022 10 minutes ago, josefk said: ...erm. Doubles i think tonight 😉 I jest by giving you a “haha” emoji but that’s a really moody photo, very nice. Crop out the red lights and you could hang that. Also, a spotting scope I see. I too use a Kowa scope from time to time. Magnus 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josefk Posted November 3, 2022 Share Posted November 3, 2022 (edited) 41 minutes ago, Captain Scarlet said: I jest by giving you a “haha” emoji but that’s a really moody photo, very nice. Crop out the red lights and you could hang that. Also, a spotting scope I see. I too use a Kowa scope from time to time. Magnus Thank you. It's Burghley Park Stamford - it's a great spot and i'm lucky it's on my doorstep. It is a spotting scope and i use it for grab and go - i can't justify an astro scope in this size while i have the spotter. The IP rating was handy tonight! i sometimes wish i'd looked harder at Kowa a few years ago as it would have given me EP freedom. Do you bump up the power on yours or stick to wide field? Cheers Edited November 3, 2022 by josefk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Scarlet Posted November 3, 2022 Share Posted November 3, 2022 (edited) 3 hours ago, josefk said: Thank you. It's Burghley Park Stamford - it's a great spot and i'm lucky it's on my doorstep. It is a spotting scope and i use it for grab and go - i can't justify an astro scope in this size while i have the spotter. The IP rating was handy tonight! i sometimes wish i'd looked harder at Kowa a few years ago as it would have given me EP freedom. Do you bump up the power on yours or stick to wide field? Cheers I've just migrated onto my laptop where I can see your sig, and as I suspected from the silhouette your spotting scope is a Swarovski, very nice! My GnG is a Kowa TSN-883, and yes I did get their astro adapter and regularly use my other eyepieces. It can take 150x quite happily, I haven't gone higher yet but I have just acquired a 1.6mm Vixen HR and plan to see what 319x looks like through it in decent seeing. Changing between non-Kowa eyepieces is a bit of a pain though, involving unscrewing the threaded 1.25" adapter, undoing the concealed grubscrew/s, swapping the eyepiece and vice versa. EDIT: I also notice you have the Swarovski 15x56 bins. I have the Zeiss Conquest 15x56s, which are superb ... it would one day be very interesting to compare side by side. Edited November 4, 2022 by Captain Scarlet 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 3, 2022 Share Posted November 3, 2022 On 11/10/2022 at 04:25, Barry-W-Fenner said: 300p & Morpheus collection out last weekend for some much overdue observing time. Now that is a nice chair Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badhex Posted November 4, 2022 Share Posted November 4, 2022 On 30/10/2022 at 21:22, Vroobel said: Hi, Hunt for the Pacman. I meant to comment on this before. Your mount is a beast! I followed your build thread - incredible stuff. Well done. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badhex Posted November 4, 2022 Share Posted November 4, 2022 16 hours ago, Vroobel said: Oops, I didn't know about it I follow lots of the "show us your..." threads - makes for excellent vicarious observing when the conditions don't allow! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josefk Posted November 4, 2022 Share Posted November 4, 2022 (edited) 7 hours ago, Captain Scarlet said: I've just migrated onto my laptop where I can see your sig, and as I suspected from the silhouette your spotting scope is a Swarovski, very nice! My GnG is a Kowa TSN-883, and yes I did get their astro adapter and regularly use my other eyepieces. It can take 150x quite happily, I haven't gone higher yet but I have just acquired a 1.6mm Vixen HR and plan to see what 319x looks like through it in decent seeing. Changing between non-Kowa eyepieces is a bit of a pain though, involving unscrewing the threaded 1.25" adapter, undoing the concealed grubscrew/s, swapping the eyepiece and vice versa. EDIT: I also notice you have the Swarovski 15x56 bins. I have the Zeiss Conquest 15x56s, which are superb ... it would one day be very interesting to compare side by side. That description of the Kowa makes me a bit jealous - i bought the Swarovski when i didn't need it for double duty under the stars (i had access to my sons 120mm "semi-portable" frac at the time but he has fully reclaimed that now). That meant i could focus on pure "birding qualities" and the Swarovski won out at the time (i didn't really future proof the choice). I really enjoy the flat field and it is sharp edge to edge but i'm only stressing the glass at 30x to 70x and with extender to 120x so not stressing it at all really. SLC 15x56 bins - these would be the last bit of optical equipment i would ever give up. "Out of my cold dead hands" as the rather unsavoury quote goes. I know from reputation and reviews your Zeiss are probably the same. I've said it before but i can never get over i can be filling the EP with a little shore wader during the day and a few hours later filling the same EP with Andromeda! I guess from your sig your also a birder? Edited November 4, 2022 by josefk 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vroobel Posted November 4, 2022 Share Posted November 4, 2022 24 minutes ago, badhex said: I meant to comment on this before. Your mount is a beast! I followed your build thread - incredible stuff. Well done. Thank you, that's nice. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powerlord Posted November 4, 2022 Share Posted November 4, 2022 All setup for tonight. And a few weeks with the big boy. Just had it stripped down, mirror cleaned, recollimated, and ready for some dsos. 🙂 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Scarlet Posted November 4, 2022 Share Posted November 4, 2022 16 hours ago, josefk said: … I guess from your sig your also a birder? Very much so. Not only do I use my Kowa (like your Svarowski) for astro, I have also used my MCTs for birding. Very high FL scopes are superbly useful across wide mud-flats in cool still air. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunshine Posted November 5, 2022 Share Posted November 5, 2022 12 hours ago, powerlord said: All setup for tonight. And a few weeks with the big boy. Just had it stripped down, mirror cleaned, recollimated, and ready for some dsos. 🙂 Wow that's a big canon of a scope! and I didn't know that palm trees grew in Suffolk 😂 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josefk Posted November 5, 2022 Share Posted November 5, 2022 7 hours ago, Captain Scarlet said: in cool still air. ...always the limiting factor in the daytime...and often why i'm putting even more hours on the bino's instead! Have fun. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunshine Posted November 6, 2022 Share Posted November 6, 2022 (edited) Unfortunately the clouds came on so suddenly I managed to look at Jupiter for a whole 30 seconds 😥 Edited November 6, 2022 by Sunshine 3 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josefk Posted November 6, 2022 Share Posted November 6, 2022 Cloud stops play at 02:00 am. I'm not normally floodlit like this - i was experimenting with a light for sketching on this evening - too bright! 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeremyS Posted November 9, 2022 Share Posted November 9, 2022 Another Dall-Kirkham night 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HollyHound Posted November 9, 2022 Share Posted November 9, 2022 Not tonight, but last night… My newly modified grab and go setup, the FC-76DCU (without Extender), tube cradle directly connected to ScopeTech mount, and now sporting my new APM Superzoom 😀 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Posted November 10, 2022 Share Posted November 10, 2022 AstoSystems 6” f6, first light for me. 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markse68 Posted November 10, 2022 Share Posted November 10, 2022 Trying out my new 50ed finder- it’s very nice but very heavy Mark 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VNA Posted November 10, 2022 Share Posted November 10, 2022 On 29/09/2022 at 15:08, Stu said: Beautiful! Whereabouts are you? Hello Stu and everyone, it is in Yosemite at Glacier Point when my association is invited for a weekend and share our scopes with the public. The sky is very dark, breath taking vistas, on a couple of occasions saw the moon rising from behind Half Dome around 2:00a.m.. Lots of tourists from every corners of the globe, it is truly a very special experience Although we have to be careful with the "natives", meaning coyotes and in particular bears and others. If you ever come this way, you absolutely have to visit the numerous National Parks, all are breathtaking. One thing never leave any food in your car otherwise those bears will open your car like a sardine can! 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Posted November 10, 2022 Share Posted November 10, 2022 6 hours ago, VNA said: Hello Stu and everyone, it is in Yosemite at Glacier Point when my association is invited for a weekend and share our scopes with the public. The sky is very dark, breath taking vistas, on a couple of occasions saw the moon rising from behind Half Dome around 2:00a.m.. Lots of tourists from every corners of the globe, it is truly a very special experience Although we have to be careful with the "natives", meaning coyotes and in particular bears and others. If you ever come this way, you absolutely have to visit the numerous National Parks, all are breathtaking. 6 hours ago, VNA said: One thing never leave any food in your car otherwise those bears will open your car like a sardine can! 😱😱🤣 Wonderful! Yosemite is one place that I would really love to visit at some point. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OK Apricot Posted November 11, 2022 Share Posted November 11, 2022 Feels like months 😣, I so need this! 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Chilli Posted November 11, 2022 Share Posted November 11, 2022 C8-N on WO EZtouch and my cat 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vroobel Posted November 12, 2022 Share Posted November 12, 2022 Jupiter, Mars and the Moon tonight. 🙂 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
epsilon160 Posted November 12, 2022 Share Posted November 12, 2022 7” Meade Mak grabbing photons and resisting dew. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now